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Farnborough 2026 Wrap: SMBC's 200-Jet Order Carries a Cautious Show as Boeing Edges Airbus

Farnborough 2026 Wrap: SMBC's 200-Jet Order Carries a Cautious Show as Boeing Edges Airbus

Farnborough 2026 closed with 327 firm Airbus and Boeing orders, dominated by SMBC Aviation Capital's 200-jet split deal. Boeing edged Airbus...
IATA Names WEF's Saadia Zahidi as Director General in Historic Break With Tradition

IATA Names WEF's Saadia Zahidi as Director General in Historic Break With Tradition

IATA has appointed World Economic Forum managing director Saadia Zahidi as its ninth director general from 1 November 2026, the first woman...
How Airlines Use AI to Set Fares: From 26 Buckets to Continuous Pricing

How Airlines Use AI to Set Fares: From 26 Buckets to Continuous Pricing

AI-driven dynamic pricing is replacing the airline industry's decades-old 26-bucket fare system. Here is how continuous pricing works, what...
eSIM for International Travel: How It Works, What It Costs and the Pitfalls to Avoid

eSIM for International Travel: How It Works, What It Costs and the Pitfalls to Avoid

Travel eSIMs now undercut carrier roaming passes by a wide margin, with data from about $2 per GB versus $12-a-day passes. Here is how to se...
How Online Travel Agencies Work: Two Giants, One Commission Machine and Five Prices for the Same Room

How Online Travel Agencies Work: Two Giants, One Commission Machine and Five Prices for the Same Room

Booking Holdings and Expedia Group sold over $300 billion of travel in 2025. Here is how OTA commission and merchant models actually work, h...
Face-First Flying: Biometric Boarding Hits Critical Mass in 2026

Face-First Flying: Biometric Boarding Hits Critical Mass in 2026

Half of air travellers now use facial recognition somewhere in their journey. With TSA Touchless ID at 65 US airports, the EU's EES fully li...
AI Trip Planning in 2026: What the Tools Actually Get Right — and Where They Still Fail

AI Trip Planning in 2026: What the Tools Actually Get Right — and Where They Still Fail

AI assistants now draft itineraries, search fares conversationally and rebook disrupted flights, yet only 13% of travellers trust them to bo...
The Megaship Race: Why Cruise Lines Keep Building the World's Biggest Ships

The Megaship Race: Why Cruise Lines Keep Building the World's Biggest Ships

Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas has pushed the cruise industry into the 250,000-gross-ton era. Inside the unit economics driving ever-b...